Extended View Toolkit v0.4 Rotterdam RELEASE

Everything still fine in Rotterdam? Thank you again for attending our workshop!We finally did it:

We proudly announce the new version of ExtendedViewToolkit – the PureData/GEM abstraction libraryfor panoramic image/video creation and projection mapping.It has been a long, but productive time since our last release. Tons of new features and fixes wait for being discovered by you.This new version was mainly done during a residency at moddr_/WORM in Rotterdam.

Amongst other changes, you are looking on a completely re-designed storage-solution, that enables you to create scene-based video-mapping setups – with the possibility to add transitions between your scenes. Within each scene, you can automate basically every parameter in every module of the toolkit individually.We made a small technical teaser, to show what’s possible with the scenes: http://vimeo.com/51567993

In addition to our multi-camera panoramic content solution, we integrated a module for creating 360-degree panoramic content made with spherical, one camera based, lens- or mirror-systems.Also, a new video player with instant and saveable controls for in/out-points, fade-times and loop, waits for being used within your performance.On the projection-side we added a module with 5×5 cornerpoints to allow more detailed settings when projecting on uneven surfaces with just one projection module. Furthermore we implemented a function to adjust the perspective distortion into the projection modules.

We sticked to our fear of externals and made the whole toolkit out of plain PD and GEM without any other external libraries. For the usage of the remote-control features we recommend the usage of mrpeach´s OSC library. We tested the toolkit on different machines, and did not have any issues on Linux, OSX 10.6.8, 10.7.1 and also on Windows 7. If you discover any problems, please get in touch with us.

Thanks to all the people who constantly support the development of the toolkit, especially Cyrille Henry, IOhannes, Seppo, Walter&Birgit of moddr and Patrick Pagano.